Johannes Diderik van der Waals, a 1910 Nobel Prize winner, was responsible for a number of advances in physical chemistry which are named after him. See:
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In chemistry, the term VanderWaals force originally referred to all forms of intermolecular forces; however, in modern usage it tends to refer to intermolecular forces that deal with forces due to the polarization of molecules.
VanderWaals interactions are observed in noble gases, which are very stable and tend not to interact.
The London-Van derWaals force is related to the Casimir effect for dielectric media, the former the microscopic description of the latter bulk property.
Johannes Diderik vanderWaals (November 23, 1837 – March 8, 1923) was a Dutch scientist famous "for his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids", for which he won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1910.
VanderWaals was the first to realise the necessity of taking into account the volumes of molecules and the intermolecular forces ("VanderWaals forces", as they are now generally called) in establishing the relationship between the pressure, volume and temperature of gases and liquids.
VanderWaals was born in Leiden, the Netherlands, as the son of Jacobus vanderWaals and Elisabeth van den Burg.
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